My photographic adventures on the other side of the world

November 14, 2017

Challenge yourself

The Valley saw a lot of foggy mornings towards the end of Autumn and on one particularly thick one I decided to set myself a challenge; use up an entire roll of film on my way to work. That’s 36 photos in around as many minutes, with the added condition that I couldn’t photograph the same thing twice. In the end the last photos were taken after arrival at work, but I still see it as a success. What I found particularly interesting, was the added creativity I needed to find to fill up the roll. On many occasions I took photos that I would never have even considered normally, which helped train my creativity and keep things fresh. In the end, the developed negatives came back in a severely underdeveloped state, probably due to a failure of the camera metering and lab inexperience with the particular film stock, and it took a lot of work to save them. The end results have a definite vintage look to them, which I find quite appealing.